Santo, the black Kölsch from Saint Arnold Brewing Co., took a silver medal at the biennial World Beer Cup competition.

It’s the second medal for Santo since it was first released 2 1/2 years ago. The beer took bronze in the 2012 World Beer Cup, also in the American-Style Dark Lager category.

The Houston brewery was one of eight Texans to pick up a medal.

The Brewers Association announced the winners Friday to close out the 2014 Craft Brewers Conference.

From the release:

Drawing the highest number of entries to date, this edition of the World Beer Cup saw 4,754 beers from 1,403 breweries representing 58 countries—a 21 percent increase in the number of entries from the 2012 World Beer Cup, which had 3,921 entries.

Brewers from five continents earned awards from an elite international panel of judges at this tenth biennial competition, with brewers from 22 countries—ranging from Australia and Brazil to Taiwan and the United Kingdom—honored. Judges awarded 281 out of 282 total possible awards, reflecting the chance for one gold, one silver and one bronze award in each of 94 beer style categories.

This year’s event was particularly competitive; the proportion of winning breweries winning one or more awards was 18 percent, compared to 27 percent in 2012. There was a 75.6 percent increase in breweries competing this year versus 2012, which had 799 breweries that entered beers in the competition. A total of 253 breweries took home awards in 2014, a 16.6 percent increase over 2012.